YOU vs. ALRM, AIN, CSTM, BRC, ESE, MWA, GEF, JBT, ATMU, and UNF
Should you be buying Clear Secure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clear Secure include Alarm.com (ALRM), Albany International (AIN), Constellium (CSTM), Brady (BRC), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Greif (GEF), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), and UniFirst (UNF). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Clear Secure (NYSE:YOU) and Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Alarm.com received 382 more outperform votes than Clear Secure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.10% of users gave Alarm.com an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Clear Secure an outperform vote.
Alarm.com has a net margin of 10.08% compared to Clear Secure's net margin of 7.90%. Clear Secure's return on equity of 20.62% beat Alarm.com's return on equity.
Clear Secure currently has a consensus target price of $28.40, indicating a potential upside of 64.26%. Alarm.com has a consensus target price of $68.83, indicating a potential downside of 0.30%. Given Clear Secure's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Clear Secure is more favorable than Alarm.com.
In the previous week, Clear Secure had 6 more articles in the media than Alarm.com. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Clear Secure and 4 mentions for Alarm.com. Clear Secure's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Alarm.com's score of -0.54 indicating that Clear Secure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alarm.com has higher revenue and earnings than Clear Secure. Clear Secure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alarm.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
73.8% of Clear Secure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Alarm.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.9% of Clear Secure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Alarm.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Clear Secure has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alarm.com has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alarm.com beats Clear Secure on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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